Sunday, August 20, 2006

This is getting confusing ...

... maybe: Hypocrisy reconsidered. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.) "... hypocrisy means doing the right thing for the wrong reason," writes John Lukacs. Well, if that's all it meant there might be no problem. But what we tend to object to is someone preaching what he does not practice, and holding others to standard he does not himself meet. The antidote to hypocrisy is humility, which means not palming yourself off as any better than you are.

By the way, Imlac's Journal, is an excellent blog. I'm glad Dave put me on to it.

3 comments:

  1. The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot

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  2. Hey, the second link is not working!

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  3. Thanks, Vikram. It works now.

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